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The Daily Grind: Do you consider yourself an expert on your favorite MMOs?
Expertise is a funny thing; it's the sort of thing usually best demonstrated by never claiming it but simply showing it. Most people confronted...
The Daily Grind: Where have you gotten bogged down in MMO play?
Probably one of my biggest bugaboos (that's a technical term) in MMO play is when I get bogged down trying to progress through a...
The Daily Grind: How much time do you spend on aesthetics in MMOs?
You don't want to know how much time I've spent carefully decorating my characters' living spaces in Final Fantasy XIV. Or maybe you do;...
The Daily Grind: Is ‘god mode’ fun for MMO play?
Unlike some console and PC titles, online RPGs don't typically offer "god mode" (despite what you may have heard about certain classes). We don't...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘hardcore’ gaming?
Quantic Foundry's latest report from its gamer motivation study is well worth your time to read, but for this morning's Daily Grind, I want...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an MMORPG-related dream?
A real dream, not just a dream to top the raid leaderboard.
MOP reader CamelotCrusade submitted today's whimsical Daily Grind topic. "The other night I...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite bragging rights reward in an MMO?
The title I display most often in Final Fantasy XIV is "Sidestepper." It's not a flashy title, but it's a bragging rights reward because...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are the best for occasional play?
As a longtime fan of MMOs, I struggle with one serious factor when it comes to playing them: time. It's not just finding time...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you went sightseeing in an MMORPG?
Are you into stopping and smelling the flowers, literally or figuratively?
I started thinking a bit about this thanks to a tweet ZeniMax sent out...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run a ‘solo’ guild in an MMO?
When housing first arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, a lot of people wanted personal houses but couldn't yet get them. So they did the...
The Daily Grind: Is Fallout 76 an MMO?
We all know that the definition of "MMORPG" and "MMO" have been stretched, twisted, and interpreted in vastly different ways over the years based...
The Daily Grind: Do you care more about an MMORPG’s playerbase or revenue?
SuperData put out a couple of reports and analyses last week that suggest Fortnite is "cannibalizing" other games, specifically in terms of revenue and...
The Daily Grind: What would you do if you could reboot any live MMO?
It's kind of crazy to me that Final Fantasy XIV is not only still running but is successful, has a thriving population and a...
The Daily Grind: Do you tilt toward sci-fi or fantasy in your MMOs?
I always found it weird that bookstores always shoved science fiction and fantasy subgenres together, kind of like a "here's a general section for...
The Daily Grind: Whom should pre-expansion MMO events target?
There are lots of things I'm not crazy about when it comes to the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch event, but one...
The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made
WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II.
If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the best space gameplay?
Over the past week or so, I've been tinkering with Star Wars Galaxies Legends, an NGE emulator for SWG that's actually pretty polished and...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have ‘passion’ for MMORPGs?
Over the weekend I saw an interesting Twitter discussion about how much game-playing game-designers actually need to do, and whether those passions are even...
The Daily Grind: Are you less inclined to enjoy an MMO in beta testing?
Writing is not a matter of having no bias, it's a matter of being aware of your bias and attempting to correct for it....
The Daily Grind: Which expansion helped out an MMO the most?
We have talked a lot about great and terrible MMO expansions in the past, but most often, we approach such conversations from our personal...
